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Why, was it something I said?

12/10/2008 11:30 AM
As everyone here knows, recently, a new member named

Gena posted two threads, one on magnetic radiation sickness and one on sacred cows in science. Both threads were promptly shut down by Administration, the first one on the grounds that her subject matter was "Absolute and utter bunk", and the second one with the admonishment that if she wants "to talk about this pseudoscientific nonsense, find another forum". Unfortunately for me, both threads were shut down before I could post any messages on them.

Not to be outdone, I sent a personal message to Gena, since she seems so convinced of the veracity of her topic. Strangely enough, the very fact that she posted two threads on the subjects shows that this is something that she very firmly believes in and wants to share with everyone, and yet after what, three weeks, I still didn't get any reply from her. Weird, especially since she seemed so eager to discuss the matter on this site in the very first place. Why, was it something I said? I mean, if she's so eager to discuss the matter with everyone, why not with me, since I'm eager to know what she has to say on this matter. Perhaps someone here would be so kind as to enlighten me as to why this is so. Anyway, below is an exact word for word reproduction of the message I sent to her. If anyone knows why she didn't answer me, please let me know. Thanks everyone.

To: Gena

I want to thank you personally for providing me with some very good laughs regarding the topic of magnetic radiation sickness. Anyway, I forwarded it to Emperor Palpatine, who thought that it was for real since he has never known me to joke. Looks like the joke was on me instead. Ah well, I guess he never found out how much I always drove old Obi-Wan up the wall with my gags and pranks. And of course, with trusty ol' R2-D2 as my partner-in-crime, you can just imagine how elaborate the gags can get.

Anyway, coming back to the topic at hand, do you know where can I get hold of one of those fluxion generators? The Emperor wants me to personally test it on some Rebel scum to see if it can be used as an effective weapon against them. Personally, I think it should, since it must be pretty uncomfortable to fight while you're suffering from rectal bleeding. And of course, left unchecked, the rectal bleeding will eventually cause them to die from blood loss. Please advice if you have personally witnessed such deaths so that I can advice His Imperial Majesty accordingly.

P.S. this had better work. The Emperor is well-known for getting upset when things don't work out as he had intended. And when he gets upset, he takes it out on me, and then I'll get upset. And when I get upset, well, I'm sure everybody knows what happens when I get upset. Let's just say that things will get really ugly when that happens.

Best regards,

Lord Vader.

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Re: Why, was it something I said?

12/10/2008 11:42 AM

This is kind of mean.

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Re: Why, was it something I said?

12/10/2008 1:12 PM

The problem with "believers" is that they have no understanding for a comment (negative) or a manifested doubt and not at all a feeling for humor. You made a joke she took it the wrong way as an insult that is the reason for no reaction, would you had a positive reaction you would have had a lot of messages with a lot of informations aso... but so

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Re: Why, was it something I said?

12/10/2008 2:07 PM

As one of the many people here who actually will TRY and have a conversation with pseudoscience supporters (or the just plain clueless) in an attempt to at least help educate them on what's really going on, I find that most will just ignore the advice and argue till the cow comes home. I have tried just about everything (from sensible and calm conversation to standing on a soap box and throwing my qualifications and experience in their face, from simple explanations and basic experiments that they can simply replicate themselves to prove what's going on, to complex math).

To this day I have never had one respond back thanking me for helping or further educating them with regard to their free energy or pseudoscience ideas (some have but have still believed in what they were doing). I like to think that some of the ones that never respond again have had the old 'light bulb' go off over their head and are too ashamed to post again. I also like to think that other people who read the posts learn something from them (hence the reason why I still bother).

From my experience however, the way some people think and act seems to indicate that they appear to have some forms of mental illness. As I never saw Gena's posts I cannot comment (but it is something that people need to take into account when writing a comment). The 'Draco' alien incident and triplebatterylife spring to mind.

Perhaps Gena thought you were 'nuts'!

No, just read the posts and threads by Gena. Free energy believer, probably didn't like you making a joke on his/her behalf (hence no response). As you can see from the site moderators comments, even they are getting sick of this sort of thing.

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